incitement

English

Alternative forms

• encitement

Etymology

From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

incitement (plural incitements)

1. A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.

   The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.

   • 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times‎:

     Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.

   • 2020 August 4, Charlie Warzel, “Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?”, in The New York Times‎:

     In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.

Derived terms

• nonincitement

Translations

a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion

Arabic: تَحْرِيض m (taḥrīḍ) Armenian: սադրանք (hy) (sadrankʻ) Belarusian: падбухто́рванне n (padbuxtórvannje) Bulgarian: подбу́да (bg) f (podbúda), подстрека́телство (bg) n (podstrekátelstvo) Catalan: incitació f Chinese: Mandarin: 煽動 / 煽动 (zh) (shāndòng) Czech: pobuřování n, podněcování n Dutch: opruiing (nl) f, aansporing (nl) f Finnish: kehottaminen (fi), yllyttäminen (fi), kiihottaminen (fi) French: incitation (fr) f, instigation (fr) f German: Anstiftung (de) f, Verhetzung f Hungarian: felbujtás (hu) Italian: incitamento (it) m, istigazione (it) f Japanese: 扇動 (ja) (せんどう, sendō) Korean: 선동 (ko) (seondong) Latin: incitamentum n, calcar n Macedonian: поттикнување n (pottiknuvanje) Malay: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: പ്രേരണ (ml) (prēraṇa) Maori: kaikaiwaiūtanga Persian: تحریک (fa) (tahrik) Polish: podżeganie (pl) n, podburzanie (pl) n Portuguese: incitação f, incitamento (pt) m Romanian: incitare (ro) f, incitație (ro) f, stârnire (ro) f Russian: подстрека́тельство (ru) (podstrekátelʹstvo) Slovak: podnecovanie n Slovene: pobuda f, hujskanje n, napeljevanje n, ščuvanje n Spanish: incitación (es) f Tajik: таҳрик (tahrik) Tocharian B: ṣertwe Ukrainian: підбу́рювання n (pidbúrjuvannja)